Le Centre des Livres d'Artistes
08/09/2022 - 11/09/2022
A three-day residency
With Antoine Beuger, Leni Dipple, Will Montgomery, Sandra Schimag, Marianne Schuppe, Stefan Thut, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé and remotely, Romaric Hardy and Francis Edeline
knowledge is formed along paths of movement in the weather-world’.’ ‘la connaissance se forme le long des couloirs transitoires du ‘weather-world’. Tim Ingold
Schedule
Introduction / CDLA visit, St Yrieix-la-Perche (Thur. 8th, 7.30pm)
Individual walks around St Yrieix-la-Perche – CDLA collection (Fri. 9th)
Individual/collective Walks, Anlhiac – Public event, Le Bourmier (Sat. 10th)
Individual Walks – Collective recollection, CDLA (Sun. 11th until 4pm)
Leni Dipple's map
CDLA collection
We arrived with our experience and notes from preliminary fieldwork (Walking in Air ‘de chez soi’, 16th/ 19th Sept 2021) and perhaps having read Tim Ingold’s article “Footprints through the weather-world: walking, breathing, knowing”. For our walks, some choose to use the following prompts, others none at all.
' To wander is literally to wind along.’ (Tim Ingold, 2010)
‘ Make a way for the wind.’ (Yoko Ono,1962)
‘ In the wind Time walks.’ (Nanao Sakaki (1980)
‘A textual nimbus, air born’ (Peter Gizzi, 2016)
collective recollection
Collective recollection
Public event: Marianne Schuppe
Public Event: Antoine Beuger
The public event on Saturday 10th September was at Leni Dipple’s house in Anlhiac as an informal sharing and telling of some of our past Walking in Air traces (score, text, sound/ video work) and material collected or generated that day.
Traces of this ‘Walking in Air’ fieldwork is available on the CDLA website and on the Walking in Air website.
Traces of our first ‘Walking in Air’ fieldwork are available on the Walking in Air website and in Walking in Air, Performance Research ‘On Air’, Vol 26 issue 7 (Sept 2022).
Walking in Air
An interdisciplinary project that encompasses walking, writing, thinking, music, performance and discussion. Drawing on Tim Ingold’s suggestion that ‘knowledge is formed along paths of movement in the weather-world’, the project considers walking in air to be a model for speculative thinking, for creative activity and for reconsidering our place within the natural environment. Participants are drawn from an international pool of composers, artists and poets.
A collaboration with Will Montgomery building on the rich body of poetry-music-environment encounters generated by the tradition of text scores inaugurated by the Fluxus movement as well as as composers such as John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Pauline Oliveiros and Annea Lockwood to name a few.